The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-17


the West Virginia Central Railroad
Company, in which Mr.. German is a
director and Mr.. Whyte, the Demo-
cratic candidate for Attorney Gener-
al, is Chief Council. Under the pres
ent constitution the canal can not be
disposed of in any such way, The
greatest reason, perhaps, as is clearly
shown, why the managers desire a
new constitution is to get rid of the
the present judges of our courts,
in order to give place to creatures
who will do the bidding of German
& Co. 1t is explicitly stated that the
tho great purposes of the Democratic
party IN having a constitutional con-
Ue1ation IS to steal the canal and get the
bosses back once more into the temple
ofj,tstice a0Iich they so long diSgraced.
This is Democratic authority upon
Democratic methods and purposes.
The question for Republicans to de-
termine is, will they lend themselves
to the furtherance of this Democratic
scheme ?
We do not believe they will. We
are ready to join hands with Mr..
Cowen and all other independent,
upright men who desire to prevent
such calamity to our State.
At the close of his letter Mr.. Cow
en- pays his respects to the Democrat
ic organ in the following vigorous
language
And now, for some time past, you
have been the apolOgist, open or
silent, for the most disgraceful regime
that the city ever knew. Election
after election has been carried by
barefaced fraud, The city's payroll
is gradually assimulating to the pO-
lice records. Murder, pure and simple
is recognized as a political service to
be rewarded in both National, State
and Municipal appointments in the
persons of Trust, Busey, Buchheimer,
Koenig, Burke, Kennedy and Good
rich Think of the list Seven MUIR
derers! An host of others known to
us all, who have not taken life, but
only tried to do so-OWings, Carter,
Butch" Murphy, Mike Murphy and
long line-swell the roll and dis
grace our city. A murder is planned
and carried out with sensational de-
liberation, merely to stop a bolt in
an important ward. The party"
shows its hand in the attempt to get
rid of the States witnesses made by
man high in its counsels. Nineteen
men of criminal record draw pay
from the city for their evil activities
in one ward. Twice does Governor
Lloyd allowable ballot-boxes of this
city to be looted, and, in spite of the
scandal, has third time refused mi
nority representation on the board.
His supervisors twice fill the polling
places with judges from the very scum
| of the earth-men whose bleached
faces tell you, as you look in the
polling places, that they are of the
class who sleep by day and not by
| night-the spawn of the brothels and
small gambling dens of the city.
Three supervisors degraded for all
time resign under the storm of popu-
lar wrath that never found voice in
your columns, All these take place
and much more of the same kind,
and you never protest. Is it possible
for us not to connect your silence as
to all this with the fact that you have
both City, State and National print
ing? Is it this that silences your
protest against this saturnalia of
blood and crime? Such is the COM
mon report. l do not say that it is
true-I should dislike to believe such
thing of any journal-but If it be
so, if that be the consideration for
your support of such an abomination,
verify, it comes within the old Lev
itical prohibitiOn-it is "the hire of
an harlot and the price of dog"
Such is your tlme-serving record !;
such is your democracy" Along
with you, claiming to be the Demo-
cratic party, are men whom the party
never could find in its hours of peril
-Gorman. Republican during the
war and prescription era Rasin,
purging his KnoW-N0thing record
in quiet retirement till the struggle
was over. Are you and they entitled
to pass upon the Democratic loyalty
OF those who give strength to the
present revolt? George VIM. Brown.
who went to prison; Wallis. who
was with him; the eX-Confederates,
so many of whom are Independents,
that some one has found it necessary
to warn them in your columns that
the party did not need them Charles
Marshall, the close friend and trusted
adviser of General Lee; SnoWden
Andrews, whose many wounds tell
the same story of his leonine bravery
that you hear of him from eyerv
Confederate, They and the long list
of those who followed their Demo.
cratic sentiments to their most radi-
cal conclusion under Jackson and
Lee cannot have their standing as
Democrats questioned by an ass0cia-
ton of political trimmers. whose
only relation to the Democratic par
ty has been that they have fed upon
it. Such men have earned the right
to criticise the party management.
They may act Independently, for
such men can act in no other way.
The Democracy that took men into
the Southern army is better than that
which takes men to the lobby and
tho p1StOm. houSa